A chronicle of Eileen and Chip's round-the-world jaunt.

May 2010

May 17, 2010

"Way down upon the Swanee River," Branford, FL. Which is actually the Suwannee River - Stephen Foster was as bad at spelling at he was at making money off his music. Not much to see that distinguishes it from any other small American river, which hasn't stopped the towns along its banks from milking the tourist interest in the "Historic Suwannee." It's main claim to fame besides the the song is that it's the only waterway in the Southeast that was never dammed.

May 16, 2010

We're on the road again, meandering our way northward after a couple of weeks at Eileen's parents. Friday night was Dothan, Alabama, which I confess to having never heard of (or completely forgotten if I had) despite its august position as "The Peanut Capital of the World." Today we're in Birmingham, headed eventually toward the Shiloh battlefield. As you can see above, yesterday we passed through Selma.

I still have pictures and a story or two to share about our journey from California to Florida, so those will be interspersed with our current travelogue over the next few days.